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I’m going to tell a story in this message about one of the traits that make a company Great – attention to detail. About 300 miles north of El Monte […]

I’m going to tell a story in this message about one of the traits that make a company Great – attention to detail. About 300 miles north of El Monte […]

In the mid-1960s, we produced a baggage compartment floor panel, Gillfab 5040, which was made with aluminum skins and end grain balsa as the core material. As part of the […]

Having been on the job for over 62 years, I have many stories that reinforce some of my philosophies. One is that when there is a problem in manufacturing and […]

For a while now the El Monte operation has held a Vuvuzela blowing contest every 4 years during the FIFA World Cup. It started 14 years ago after my daughter, […]

When visitors enter our corporate offices, they often ask about the airline travel posters, and I’m going to explain. My love for aviation was born in the late 1950s, aboard […]

I don’t remember the name of the movie, but it has had a lasting effect on my life. In the movie, two characters are watching a magic trick. At the end […]

In my last two messages I’ve described an event that happened when I was just beginning my career. We’d received a large order for lab table tops from a hospital […]

In my last message I mentioned a valuable lesson that I would explain in this message. We were having trouble with matching the color on a 990C laminate order. It […]

When I began my career at The Gill Corporation my position was supervisor of Line #2. We had a huge (for us at that time) order for 990Cs. They used […]

I’ve been a baseball fan most of my life. When I was young and became interested in baseball there were no major league baseball teams in the Los Angeles area. […]